attila the hun,who was he? What did he do.?

Answer 1

Hey Shashi,
In the Fifth Century AD, Attila ( pronounced AT-til-ah or a-TIL-ah) upon the death of his cousin Bleda, took control of the Huns, a loose confederation of clans of horse riding archer nomads from the Steppes of Central Asia.

They may have been the Hsiung-nu who were the great enemy barbarians of the Han Dynasty of China, but it cannot be proven because neither Huns nor Hsiung-nu ever built cities, wrote histories, nor left much in their burials.

They fought and either drove west ,or conquered, the other tribes to their west (Visogoths,Ostrogoths, Alans, Allemani, Geppadi, and a bunch of others I can't remember right now.)
As these tribes moved west to escape the Huns, they came upon the Roman borders of the Rhine and Danube. The romans allowed some (Visogoths) to enter as allies to fight the rest.

Attila in the 450's took the Hun army (all cavalry) through the bunched up tribes and the Roman border garrisons down into Italy itself. He was met at the Po river by Pope Leo I (called "the Great") who talked, bribed, threatened, and somehow managed to get Atilla to turn north again.

A Roman general, Aetius, managed to combine his infantry legions with Visogothic cavalry and defeated Attila and the Huns at the battle of Chalons. (451 AD I think, but look it up to be sure)

The Huns went north. Attila died (possibly drowned in his own vomit while drunk) and the Huns broke up as a united force.

Their name is given to Hungary as geographically part of their territory.
During World War I, the Brits called the Germans, "Huns", ironically because it was the ancestors of the Germans who helped to defeat the Huns, but "hun' has come to mean cruel, barbaric, and fearsome. This is because they used terror as a weapon. (We would call it 'PsyOps") Like the Mongols and Assyrians, they wiped out cities totally but made sure some people got away to tell everyone else, so that THEY would surrender instead of risking the same cruel obliteration.

Attila was a brilliant general who only met one defeat, and a conqueror whose conquests vanished at his death.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Attila (406 – 453), also known as Attila the Hun or the Scourge of God, was King or Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea . During his rule he was one of the most fearsome of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires' enemies: he invaded the Balkans twice, he marched through Gaul (modern day France) as far as Orleans before being defeated at the Battle of Chalons; and he drove the western emperor Valentinian III from his capital at Ravenna in 452. He reached Constantinople and Rome but refrained from attacking either city.

In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity. In contrast, some histories lionize him as a great and noble king, and he plays major roles in three Norse sagas.

Answer 4

(406?–453). Of all the barbarian leaders who attacked the Roman Empire, none is more famous than Attila the Hun. In western Europe his ferocity earned him the nickname Scourge of God. He was king of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He shared power temporarily with his elder brother, Bleda, whom he murdered in about 445.

By the 5th century the Huns ruled a large empire. The Western Roman Empire had almost totally disintegrated. The Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire, which had its capital at Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), was much stronger than its counterpart to the west. But it had extended its boundaries over too wide an area to stop an invasion at any one point. To keep from being attacked, the Eastern emperor paid an annual tribute to the Huns. The emperor's failure to keep up payments led Attila to invade the Byzantine Empire in two campaigns, in 441–443 and in 447–449. Much of what is now the Balkan region was devastated. The empire lost territory and had to pay a larger tribute.

In 450 Attila claimed Honoria, sister of the Western emperor, Valentinian III, as his wife. As a dowry he expected half of the Western Empire. To enforce this claim, Attila invaded Gaul (France) in 451. He was defeated and forced to withdraw. In 452 he overran much of northern Italy but turned back before attacking Rome. His next plan was to lead another invasion of the Byzantine Empire, but he died suddenly after celebrating the last of his marriages. He was succeeded by his sons, who divided his empire.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Thats because western Germans or the Visigoths no longer lived in Germany. They had fled to Gaul, modern day France under the protection of Roman armies while the eastern Germans, he Ostrogoths, stayed in Germania or modern day Germany to fight under the Huns. The western Germans and the Eastern Germans met each other at the battle of Chalons where Theodoric the King of the Western Germans had died. But the combined Western Germanic, Roman and Alanic forces managed to force back the Huns and their German allies.

Answer 7

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attila the hun,who was he? What did he do.?

Answer 8

The man that united the various tribes of Huns into a coherent fighting force. He led the Huns to conquering a lot of territory.

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